Just a few questions for those of us more experienced...

Hemoglobin - Lost City
Hemoglobin - Lost City Posts: 251 Arc User
edited August 2009 in Wizard
I've been thinking about a few things.

Our ults take an insane amount of time, and I've noticed that during duels, even shorter skills like Phoenix get interupted. So I'm a bit confused as to how our ults are so amazing. They do great damage, but take forever. I know at 9x with the third spark things are easier cuz you can sutra, do a skill, then throw down an ult, but what before then?

Are all of us subject to being useless because our ults take forever? Sutra only lasts so long, and theres just so many things you can use it for, to heal, burst damage, or a mix.

Say you are 1v1 an archer, they hit so fast that while you're trying to use an ult, itll just get interupted, and then you'll try another spell and thatll get interupted.

Yes, I know we have FoW, but that doesnt sound like it'll do too much. Ults take longer to cast than FoW lasts, so you're stuck in other words. I guess what I'm asking is how do you not get your skills interupted?

And another thing I was thinking about is Wiz vs. Archer. With their shell, they take basically no damage. Idk how long it lasts for, but what are we supposed to do if we can't do damage? The archer can just kill us while we use our awesome, easily interupted (probably going to be interupted) skills and do no damage because their shell just absorbs it.

So does anyone know what to do when an archer throws up their shell? Or are we just screwed.....






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  • Fireblood - Harshlands
    Fireblood - Harshlands Posts: 1,414 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Archers shell is pathetic, 1 skill and it can be killed (absorbs a ****ty 810 damg). Blink into an archers minimum range, if you are LA or a very good geared robe wiz you will have no problems tanking there damage. If you wear fashion and are LA most archers will try and take you down like they do a robe (roll there face on the keyboard). Spam genie skill spam pots spam apoc pots.
    btw pk>duels
    Quit.
  • Hemoglobin - Lost City
    Hemoglobin - Lost City Posts: 251 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Fireblood - Harshlands wrote: »
    Archers shell is pathetic, 1 skill and it can be killed (absorbs a ****ty 810 damg). Blink into an archers minimum range, if you are LA or a very good geared robe wiz you will have no problems tanking there damage. If you wear fashion and are LA most archers will try and take you down like they do a robe (roll there face on the keyboard). Spam genie skill spam pots spam apoc pots.
    btw pk>duels

    Oh ok, here I was thinking the shell kept them alive.

    And yeah I know duels are a different story, I was just wondering because it seemed like the shell makes them invincible.
  • Mizuoni - Dreamweaver
    Mizuoni - Dreamweaver Posts: 3,533 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    ultis are useless until they are lvl 10
    thats why they do so much damage
    at lower levels best to use sutra
    Sins are Scissors. Psychics are Rocks.
    Archers, Venos, Barbs, Wizards, BMs, Mystics, Seekers are Paper.
    ...and Clerics are Mushrooms.
    Paper beats Rock. Scissors beats Paper. Scissors also happens to beat Rock...until Rock gets 50k+ soulforce at which point Rock becomes an unstoppable killing machine that beats Paper... and would beat Scissors but it can't find Scissors, because Scissors are invisible.
    So Scissors beat Paper and avoids Rock, and that is called BALANCE. -cheze
  • Hemoglobin - Lost City
    Hemoglobin - Lost City Posts: 251 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Mizuoni - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    ultis are useless until they are lvl 10
    thats why they do so much damage
    at lower levels best to use sutra

    Do they take less time at lvl 10?

    Cuz I still see them getting interupted no matter the level.
  • Fireblood - Harshlands
    Fireblood - Harshlands Posts: 1,414 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    No they take the same time but if you can get em off they will deal HUGE damage. If you can do sutra>chi pot>ultimate
    Quit.
  • Hemoglobin - Lost City
    Hemoglobin - Lost City Posts: 251 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Fireblood - Harshlands wrote: »
    No they take the same time but if you can get em off they will deal HUGE damage. If you can do sutra>chi pot>ultimate

    I see b:thanks
  • Mizorie - Lost City
    Mizorie - Lost City Posts: 598 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    ults are manly used in grp pvp and tws. You can only really use it at high lvl in 1 vs 1 where your control skills are maxed such as Fow and mage sleep.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
    Dalamaar: Mizorie you have no soul.
  • Jrudora - Lost City
    Jrudora - Lost City Posts: 445 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Archers are no longer a problem.
    Especially if they waste their stun shot on me.
    If they can't one shot me (many archers higher level than me could though =/), then after their stun shots over I'd blink in, and sleep them.
    After that, undine with extreme poison gives me such an overly huge advantage in damage that its pretty much over.

    Our ultimates play a very vital role in TW though.
    In there, it absolutely shines.
    So far, everytime I've thrown a dragon in TW, at least one person takes 8k damage crit.
    The rest would take anywhere from 2.5k to 4.4k or so.
    Not anything impressive compared to the 10k - 30k damages that other mages do, but its still pretty neat to me.

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